Assessing a Shift to Enrollment-Based School Funding

Jan 6, 2026 - As part of the state ’s accountability system, districts report various student outcomes, referred to as statewide indicators, which are then displayed on a public website known as the school dashboard.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5100

Increasing Transparency of County Office of Education Spending

Mar 14, 2024 - Displaying total COE revenues and expenditures —including funding for district support and funding that is passed through to districts —makes it more challenging to assess spending specifically related to juvenile court and county community schools.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4883

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 5, 2025 - The Provider Directory is an online portal that will store and display information about service providers statewide. DDS required providers to complete a data collection survey by October 4, 2024 and then validate the submitted data in the Provider Directory in order to satisfy this performance metric.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5008

The 2023-24 Budget: Proposition 98 Overview and K-12 Spending Plan

Feb 7, 2023 - For consistency with the displays in the Governor ’s budget, we exclude this funding from our Proposition  98 spending totals in 2023 ‑24. Proposition  28 (2022) Establishes New Program to Fund Arts Education.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4670

The 2024-25 Budget: Proposition 98 and K-12 Education

Feb 15, 2024 - State Displays Chronic Absenteeism Data on the California School Dashboard. The state publicly displays outcomes on several performance measures on a website known as the California School Dashboard.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4839

The 2022-23 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor's May Revision

May 16, 2022 - The Surplus Figure  3 displays the major spending decisions that the Governor made in allocating state discretionary funds (including proposals carried forward from January). It includes: (1)  the $34  billion in spending choices using the overall General Fund surplus (this figure excludes reserve deposits, tax refunds, and debt payments, which are shown instead in Figure   4) and (2)  the $33  billion surplus within the school and community college budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4598

The 2022-23 Budget: Educator Workforce Proposals

Feb 23, 2022 - New CTC teacher recruitment and support 2 Establishes eight career counselors to provide technical assistance for prospective educators and one position to develop a new teacher recruitment web portal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4556

Update on the Progress of the CalSTRS Funding Plan

Nov 18, 2021 - Figure 4 shows the current division of UAO between the state and employers, displayed as the difference between the green bars (indicating current obligations) and blue bars (indicating current assets).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4475

The 2021-22 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor’s May Revision

May 17, 2021 - Major Spending Choices Figure  2 displays the major budgetary decisions that the Governor made in allocating state and federal money, totaling $85  billion. It includes (1)  the General Fund surplus, (2)  school and community college spending, (3)  the American Rescue Plan (ARP) fiscal relief funds, and (4)  ARP capital projects funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4432

The 2022-23 Budget: College and Career Proposals

Feb 23, 2022 - As part of the state ’s accountability system, districts report various student outcome data to the state, which is then displayed on a public website known as the school dashboard. Under the state ’s accountability system, school districts that have poor performance for one or more student subgroups based on these indicators must examine their root issues and access support to help them improve.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4562